…A heart and mind searching for truth in a lying, fallen world.

I want to find…

Main menu

Sub menu

The Mystery That Beats Within Us…

The heart is not changed by argument, wishing, demands, bribes, or coercion, only by the heart itself or by God's singular intervention. That is why you cannot make a woman love you (her choice) or save yourself (God's choice). William Meisheid 2010

Knowing God

William Meisheid

William Meisheid's Books'n Stuff Bookstore
— This is my affiliate bookstore that doesn’t increase the cost of ordering a book for you but gives me a small affiliate’s return on any order to allow me to defray my costs. Thank you for using it.

Thank you for visiting Beyond the Rim…

Philosophy

Most relationships in life are sustained by small things. While we often focus on the big things, the grandiose statements of significant caring, it is the little acts of kindness and self giving that build the foundation and solidify the structure of our personal relationships. Therefore, when separations occur in our relationships, for whatever reason,…

Conspiracy theories. They are all the vogue these days, especially when it concerns the Bush family, which Michael Moore believes has been conspiring to take over America. Aliens and UFOs are big these days also, especially on the Sci-Fi channel, by which I mean expose’ shows on past UFO events done by non other than…

The Probability of God, the book by Stephen D. Unwin, has resulted in a flurry of articles, both pro and con, on the utility of his argument. For examples of pro (Evangelical Outpost: Wagering a Life: Part 1  Urwin and the Probability of God) and con (God’s Number Is Up by Michael Shermer at…

Late one night I was going through a collection of stuff that needed to be sorted into discard and keep piles. I came across a box filled with old keys. There was no way to know to what locks they belonged, if indeed the locks still existed. Despite that obvious fact, there was a remarkable…

One of the fundamental axioms of Christianity is that people can change. When a person becomes a Christian they begin a process of becoming something new. This truth was expressed by Paul in his second letter to the Corinthians (5:17): Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone,…

I have been rereading some of my earlier writings and today I came across an article I wrote for a church newsletter last year, entitled Fast or Slow and it got me to thinking about how things have changed, even within the last year. The original articles premise related to whether building a great business…

I was reading an article on Kuperian (neocavlinist) political principals by Joe Carter and his discussion of ontological personhood struck a chord which I think is significant when you approach areas like capital punishment. Joe stated that “we belong not to others or even to ourselves but to God Himself.” That fundamental principal is the…